The XIII Week of the Italian Language in the World is Under the Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy
LITERATURE – Boccaccio in Washington, DC
An international, interdisciplinary conference on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s birth.
WITH: American Boccaccio Association, Georgetown University
LOCATION: Georgetown University
MUSIC
– Verdi Re-Imagined: Fantasias from Verdi’s operas
The Cameristi della Scala explore Giuseppe Verdi’s music in instrumental adaptations by his contemporaries, all featuring a string soloist with chamber orchestra.
WITH: Vento & Associati
LOCATION: Embassy of Italy
LITERATURE, ART, MUSIC
– Tasso, Monteverdi and the Arts
Lecturers Laura Benedetti and Peter Lukehart will present Torquato Tasso’s poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired. The National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble with Rosa Lamoreaux, artistic director, soprano and the National Gallery of Art Chamber Players will perform the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi.
WITH: National Gallery of Art, Georgetown University
LOCATION: National Gallery of Art – East Building Auditorium
MUSIC
– Verdi Our Contemporary
Concert by Ensemble Nuove Musiche. Seven composers coming from different parts of Italy have selected many lyrics of the Master of Busseto and re-arranged them according to their own taste and aesthetics. The program also includes the performance of some of Verdi’s original works.
WITH: Ensemble Nuove Musiche, AIFIC – American Initiative For Italian Culture
LOCATION: Embassy of Italy
CINEMA – Il primo incarico (First Assignment) by Giorgia Cecere
1953. Nena, a southern Italian girl, moves away from home for her first job as a teacher. She is leaving behind her mother and sister, but also her upper-middle class fiancé.
WITH: Italians in DC
LOCATION: Embassy of Italy
DESIGN – Italian design in the second half of the 20th century
Ezio Mattiace and Claudio Silvestrin will explore some of the paths followed by Italian designers, trying to figure out how they succeeded in gaining a leading role on the world scene.
WITH: Catholic University of America, American Institute of Architecture
LOCATION: Embassy of Italy
CINEMA, ART – Aesthetics and Ideology in Painting and Cinema
In the film The Ghosts of the Third Reich, Claudia Ehrlich Sobral and Tommaso Valente look at the way a few descendants of Nazi high officers have tried to come to terms with their family past. After the screening, Claudia E. Sobral and Ori Z. Soltes will discuss the artistic implications of choosing diverse mediums, such as painting and cinema.
WITH: Embassy of Brazil, Kreeger Museum
LOCATION: Kreeger Museum
CONFERENCE – Teaching Italian Culture Conference
The purpose of this conference is to share innovative approaches and pedagogical strategies for teaching Italian culture at both university and high school levels (in particular for AP courses).
WITH: Georgetown University
LOCATION: Georgetown University
MUSIC – Viva Verdi
The Cathedral Choral Society presents Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, the Society’s signature work since its inaugural concert in 1942. The concert opens with his stirring Hymn of the Nations.
WITH: Cathedral Choral Society
LOCATION: National Cathedral
CINEMA – Tutti giù (Everybody Sometimes Falls) by Niccolò Castelli
Three young adults share the common need to measure up in an adult world. Can they achieve self-awareness, and still nurture that sacred flame which makes them feel alive?
WITH: Embassy of Switzerland
LOCATION: Embassy of Italy
MUSIC – The American Songs by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
A concert by Salvatore Champagne, tenor, and Howard Lubin, piano, with the participation of Dr. Aloma Bardi.
WITH: ICAMUS, Library of Congress
LOCATION: Embassy of Italy
MUSIC, ART – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and the poetry of Walt Whitman
A special lecture-recital featuring compositions from Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s American years, with a focus on his ten-song cycle Leaves of Grass.
WITH: ICAMUS, Library of Congress
LOCATION: Library of Congress – Coolidge Auditorium